After the saltpeter mining stopped, Mammoth Cave became famous with the release of businessman and wealthy landowner Nahum ...

Who would have thought that ancient marine life would be found in Kentucky? The Longest Cave in the World. Kentucky's Mammoth ...

Mammoth Cave National Park in south-central Kentucky, home to the world's longest cave system, has been extended by an additional 6 miles.

EDMONSON COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18) — According to the Cave Research Foundation, the longest cave system is even longer. The foundation has discovered eight more miles of passage within Mammoth Cave ...

Like many places, Mammoth Cave—Kentucky’s only national park and the world’s longest cave system—saw its visitation hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2019, more than half a million ...

No other cave system in the world is known to offer such a variety of sulfate minerals. ... Mammoth Cave became a World Heritage Site in 1981 and an International Biosphere Reserve in 1990.

Explore Mammoth Cave National Park, the longest cave system on Earth, featuring the richest known habitat for cave wildlife in the world. It may be difficult to think of caves as spacious and grand, ...

The world's longest cave system just got a little bit longer. Mammoth Cave National Park announced last week that an additional six miles of cave have been discovered and added to its total length ...

Mammoth Cave National Park is trying to lure tourists by quoting testimonials from some of the more than 550,000 visitors who check out the world’s longest cave system in Kentucky each year ...

An explorer of the Mammoth Cave system in Kentucky who died 100 years ago is credited with the creation of the national park. Accessibility links. Skip to main content; ...